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06/04/2018
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, New York topped national lists for incarceration rates among US cities of comparable…
05/31/2018
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Almost a decade after after spending time as a fellow at NYU Law, Marta Cartabia—now vice president and judge of the…
05/30/2018
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Most research papers in the sciences are headed by a list of multiple co-authors. So are most papers in economics. But…
05/23/2018
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Nearly 400 recent NYU Law graduates took part in the Law School’s Recent Graduate Scholarship Challenge, which raised…
05/23/2018
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Natasha Merle ’08 says she can’t recall ever having spoken to a lawyer until she went to law school. No family members…
05/14/2018
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Jennifer Arlen ’86, Norma Z. Paige Professor of Law, has been elected president of the American Law and Economics…
05/09/2018
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Four professors on the NYU Law faculty have been selected as research members of the European Corporate Governance…
05/09/2018
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Linda Silberman
On April 23, Linda Silberman, Clarence D. Ashley Professor of Law and co-director of the…
05/09/2018
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Margaret Satterthwaite '99, Gordon Brown, Shaheed Fatima, Harold Koh, and Andrew Hilland LLM '08
Around the…
05/08/2018
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Arthur Mahon ’58 and Nancy Mahon ’89 are a rare father-daughter pair. Not only are they both NYU Law graduates,…
05/04/2018
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Steven Dean
Steven Dean will join NYU Law on January 1, 2019, as the new faculty director of the Graduate Tax…
05/03/2018
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Nicole Zayas Fortier, Judith Greene, Robin Steinberg '82
Close to 11 million people cycle through the jail…
05/02/2018
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One glance at the diversity of topics and readings in the syllabus for Art Law, an NYU Law course that Emily Kempin…
04/25/2018
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On March 30, the NYU Law Sports Law Association presented its seventh annual Sports Law Colloquium, which this year…
04/25/2018
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The American South is dotted with the iconography of the Confederacy, says Professor Bryan Stevenson, founder and…
04/24/2018
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Copyright law once mostly focused on works such as books, photographs, paintings, music, and films. Today, copyright is…
04/23/2018
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On April 27-29, NYU Law graduates of 10 classes from 1968 to 2013 gathered at the Law School to celebrate…
04/19/2018
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It has been a truth universally acknowledged—at least, by the World Bank and many economic and legal theorists—that…